re: Malcom Jenkins has become Consistently Great at...(Posted by jeff5891 on 10/8/12 at 11:18 am to HandGrenade)

quote:Just so y'all know...Harper and Jenkins are ranked 19th and 22th in total tackles so far, which is 2nd and 3rd among among DBs in the league.

if you are going to post stats please post all relevant ones not just the one stat that makes them look good. plus after they give a lot of space on a receiver they generally tackle but they still gave up the completion (inflated stat)

re: Malcom Jenkins has become Consistently Great at...(Posted by Pendulum on 10/8/12 at 11:22 am to HandGrenade)

oh, ok; well I dont think he is a bad tackler. I think that is one of his more positive assets actually. Especially since everything else I thought he had that was an asset, is turning out to be liabilities.

I'm not writing him off until after the season is complete though. There's still time left to put together a solid season.

I just think that stat is close to meaningless so I jumped into this thread.

re: Malcom Jenkins has become Consistently Great at...(Posted by HandGrenade on 10/8/12 at 11:31 am to Chad504boy)

Team defense. I'm not saying our safeties are playing flawless by any stretch of the imagination...but the young cbs are getting burned all the time. Jenkins and Harper can't cover for everyone's mistakes. Especially when dealing with pass defense, it's a team effort, except maybe back shoulder stuff? You could make an argument for that but even Revis gets burned on those from time to time.

I think his point is, unless you can provide how many tackle attempts Malcolm had then his number of tackles is useless.

I personally think tackles are a pretty useless stat for gauging defensive ability unless you put up a monster number like over 200. You can see good defensive players. Shanle has led the team or been close every year since he's been here. Does that make him a good player?

re: Malcom Jenkins has become Consistently Great at...(Posted by Chad504boy on 10/8/12 at 11:33 am to HandGrenade)

quote:Team defense. I'm not saying our safeties are playing flawless by any stretch of the imagination...but the young cbs are getting burned all the time. Jenkins and Harper can't cover for everyone's mistakes. Especially when dealing with pass defense, it's a team effort, except maybe back shoulder stuff? You could make an argument for that but even Revis gets burned on those from time to time.

Quick making excuses. Malcom should be the type of player and veteran by now that is an impact player and helps the rest of the D. But he's not cause he sucks and is just another added liability out there.